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Corporate Disclosures and Financial Risk Assessment A Dichotomous Data-Analyt…
This publication links information asymmetries and decision processes of financial investors through quantitative models. The aim is to analyze empirical observations and synthesize outputs in order to add new academic insights with practical pertinence. Multivariate scoring models and statistical analyses investigate situations on the market level that enables corporations to lower their capit…
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- 9783658124601
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- xi, 152 pages
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- 338.7
Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance Theory and Practice
This book deals with the role of international standards for corporate governance in the context of corporate social responsibility. Based on the fundamentals of moral theory, the book examines governance and CSR in general, addressing questions such as: Is ℓ́ℓgood governanceℓ́ℓ not affected by moral concerns? How do the principles and practices of CSR standards adhere to or conflict …
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- 9783319109091
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- 338.09
Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level proces…
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Experimenting for Sustainable Transport
Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various ne…
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- 9781134488179
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Environmental Software Systems. Infrastructures, Services and Applications 1…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2015, held in Melbourne, Australia, in March 2015. The 62 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: information systems, information modeling and semanti…
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- 978-3-319-15994-2
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- 206 illustrations in colour
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- Springer Texts in Business and Economics
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Trusted Systems 6th International Conference, INTRUST 2014, Beijing, China, …
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Trusted Systems, INTRUST 2014, held in Beijing, China, in December 2014. The conference brings together academic and industrial researchers, designers, and implementers with end-users of trusted systems, in order to foster the exchan…
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- 978-3-319-27998-5
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Trust-Based Selling Finding and Keeping Customers for Life
The first year of developing a new sales territory or establishing new customers is a daunting task—especially in dog-eat-dog industries. The traditional advice is to train quickly on products, grab a customer list, start calling for appointments, discover opportunities, and close deals. In fact, almost every sales model out there is based on nothing more than "opportunity" management. But ju…
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- 978-1-4842-0874-8
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Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business 12th International Conferenc…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015 in conjunction with DEXA 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: access control; t…
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- 978-3-319-22906-5
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Trust and Trustworthy Computing 8th International Conference, TRUST 2015, He…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing, TRUST 2015, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in August 2015. The 15 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: hardware-enhanced trusted execution; trust an…
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- 978-3-319-22846-4
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The Global Impact of Unconventional Shale Gas Development
This book discusses the economic, political, and environmental issues surrounding the international exploration and exploitation of conventional and unconventional natural gas. Shale gas development in recent years has changed the energy discussion in the US as existing reserves of natural gas coupled with horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing make exploitation of these reserves economic…
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- V, 249, 32 b/w illustrations
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- Natural Resource Management and Policy
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